Our business : providing sustainable solutions
Sustainable development lies at the very heart of all our activities. Energy, water and waste services: for more than 150 years, the companies that make up the Group have delivered services essential to life and to people's economic and social development. Today, more than ever, their clients – businesses, local authorities and individuals – expect solutions that fulfill their expectations of sustainable development: solutions that are competitive, but also respectful both of the environment and of mankind.
Our responsability : Controlling the impact we make
SUEZ has 140,000 employees and serves 200 million people, 500,000 businesses and 3,000 local authorities around the world. From employees to clients and the neighboring population, the Group has a direct impact on the employment, health, security, environment and lives of millions of people.
Since its creation, it has fully committed itself to controlling the effects of this impact by implementing long-term solutions.
Our ultimate aim : Creating value
Since it was founded, SUEZ has known that sustainable development creates value. Innovating to offer sustainable solutions to clients is a source of growth. Similarly, to maximize the quality of its businesses’ by-products, to ensure that its employees have a quality environment in which to work and to assist them to adapt their skills to the development of the Group's activities - is to add to the performance and competitiveness of the whole. And, finally, the Group's mastery of its environmental impacts, both directly on neighbors and indirectly through the contribution it makes to local economic and social development, enables all those exercising their abilities within the Group to enjoy their professional activities peacefully, with long-lasting prospects.
